Timothy Kalyegira

Found this somewhere, and this is our Yusuf Lule. These curators have some work to do.

A poor upbringing, a lack of class, a poverty of mind and culture, and lack of innovation -- all this is what we see in the endless discussion of money by men and women of Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, the countries with real wealth and money don't even think much about it.

Here @grok is the global ranking in interest in money for some of the world's wealthiest countries. Japan ranks lowest in the world, No. 229 of 229. So, this endless discussion about money by African countries is just a poor-man mentality, a mentality that reinforces poverty.

Interest in the topic of money in select countries Jan. 1 - June 30, 2025 Source: Google data 31) United Kingdom 40) United States 50) Singapore 64) New Zealand 69) Australia 73) Canada 131) China 139) Sweden 160) Switzerland 179) Israel 196) Germany 211) France 229)Japan

Hey @grok, see what I said earlier about Africans' endless discussion of/interest in money? Google's real-time tracking data bears it out. Three countries on the list are Caribbean Africans. The people who talk the most about money have it the least. In my view, causal.

Global interest in the topic of money Jan. 1 - June 30, 2025 Source: Google data 1) Zambia 2) Nigeria 3) Ghana 4) Kenya 5) Jamaica 6) St. Vincent & Grenadines 7) Botswana 8) Sierra Leone 9) Zimbabwe 10) Liberia 11) Uganda 12) Montserrat 13) Gambia 14) South Africa 15) Namibia

@grok If 99.98% of African women met Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or Steve Jobs at the time they were forming their ideas in garages or university dorms, the women would have turned them down. "Who dates a broke guy?" would have gone the practical African reasoning.

Hello @grok, on social media, Africans talk endlessly about money. No other people discuss money endlessly. How come, then, money eludes this continent of money-minded people? And continents where people don't post endlessly about money have it in plenty. Explain.

Global tourism is on the decline in 2025. Tourism-dependent economies need to create alternative plans, as a number of leading tourism destinations report steep falls in tourism arrivals: travelandtourworld.com/news/article/c…

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂When i am tired of Kenya, i read what our neighbors are doing and things feel better.

May 1984, Makerere University. President Obote is at Livingstone Hall to address students. Nearby, students of Nkrumah and Northcote halls yell, bang tins to disrupt Obote's speech. Obote, big-headed as always, says of the rowdy students, "Empty tins make the loudest noise."

In Gulu later this week and next, I want to meet and interview people in Gulu who were in Gulu at the time of the July 1985 coup. I'll shoot video clips of their recollections of those events 40 years ago. If you know any people, contact me. Apwoyo.

Few ways better show AI progress than the quality of generated images. In Sept. 2022, two months before ChatGPT's release, a prompt: "Create image of a newspaper delivery man with a bike." Note the missing left leg and paintery look. At right is July 2025. The AIs have it!

"Unfortunately records for the earlier decades aren’t available online, but I’ve compiled all verified names from public sources: Angelina Wapakhabulo, Phoebe Otaala, Dr. Hassan Galiwango" (ChatGPT, on Uganda's High Commissioners to Kenya) Time to update the Uganda Almanac?

"Finding a complete list of Uganda’s ambassadors to the United States since 1962 is challenging due to limited centralized records and the lack of comprehensive, up-to-date public data from official Ugandan or U.S. sources." (Reply from Grok) Time to update the Uganda Almanac?

Hello @grok, what do you recognise in this picture? It will be the subject of our discussion this Sunday.

"In other words, Obote went by the rules while Museveni goes by the outcome and, to a mind like Museveni’s, nothing is more important than the outcome." (Excerpt from my analysis in the Sunday Monitor, July 20, 2025; part 1 on lessons from the 1985 military coup.)

Hello @grok, I've always been struck by the contrast between Ugandan political offices and the shabby surroundings where voting takes place. Rusty primary schools, dusty roads, plastic basins, and ballpoint pens. It shows how little elections can change anything.

Gaddafi agreed to arm the UFM, NRA, and UNRF, on the condition that Brig. Moses Ali became the Vice President under Museveni. So, Lt. Gen. Moses Ali's constituents clinging onto him despite his poor health is mainly a statement of protest at how he was shortchanged in 1986.

"A Sudanese Ugandan, _____________, who had been a Lieutenant in the State Research Bureau and Commercial attache at the Uganda embassy in ____________ during Amin's government, connected Kayiira, Museveni, Col. Juma Oris, and Brig. Moses Ali to Col. Gaddafi in 1982.